Re: What is an Intel PXE ROM

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On Tue, 30 May 2006 10:49:37 -0700, Malke wrote:
Are you having a problem booting?
In a home machine, just change your boot order (PXE option last)
Disable it in your BIOS.
Press the blue Access IBM button as soon as the laptop starts up.


Hi Malke and everyone,

It's a home machine that a friend set up years ago. All of a sudden, it's
doing this PXE ROM thing but I don't really have a problem booting.
Generally that PXE message only comes up once every few weeks and I just
reboot and it goes away. I just don't like the idea of the machine booting
off a network I don't know anything about. What network is it trying to
boot off of anyway?

I don't have a blue button (well, the "Enter" key is blue and there are
blue diagrams on some of the Fn buttons, but, there is a "THINKPAD" black
button you might be talking about. I hit the F1 when I was rebooting and
that brought me into the BIOS setup so I think that's what you're referring
to. (I understand, every laptop is different).

All I want to do is disable this boot into PXE option but I can't find it.
I never boot off of anything but the hard drive or sometimes I boot off of
Knoppix when files get corrupted so I can fix it by copying files which is
the most basic of all fixes which is all I know how to do anyway.

Do you think I should turn off all the F1, Bios Setup, Startup, Boot and
Network options other than just the hard drive?

Here is what the Bios setup says for F1, Startup, Boot:
- Hard Drive
- Removable Devices
- CDROM Drive
- IBM 4.0.22 slot 0240

It says the SAME thing for F1, Startup, Network!

Since I don't need to boot off any network, should I turn off ALL four of
these options for the F1, Startup, Network.

Unfortunately, I looked at ALL the options under F1 Startup and there are
no entries which apply directly to something called PXE ROM (there are date
and password settings but nothing about PXE ROMs that I can find).

I'd like to ask first before I tturn off ALL the F1, Startup, Network
options, if that is the correct approach?

Ilena
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